Finding the UID for samba users
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Aug 5 17:06:44 UTC 2005
Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I am in the process of moving all of our users over to our new Samba
> File server which runs FC3.
>
> In order to properly secure the home folders, I need to chown them to
> the UID of the individual user, and chgrp them to the domain users
> group. I know the GID for the domain users, so no problem there. Is
> there a way to find a list of the UID for all the users.
>
> I know that I can do it by logging in as each individual user, and then
> touching a file in a public directory, but that seems like the long way
> around the barn to get it done.
>
> Any insights?
Try:
getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
Paul.
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